2009-10 hockeyfights.com Awards
I present the 2009-10 hockeyfights.com Awards.
As always, the awards are a collaborative effort by the hockeyfights.com content team. Jon Porus, Merlin401 in the forums, did a great job, again, compiling these. Tons of thanks to all of them.
Below are all our categories this season. Cast your vote and have your say.
- Fight of the Year
- Kocur Award: TKO or KO of the Year
- Probert Award: Fighter of the Year
- Crowder Award: Rookie of the Year
- People's Choice Award
- Broad Street Bully Award: Best Enforcing Team
- Worst Enforcing Team
- Most Improved/Comeback Fighter
- Best Mid-Season Fighter Pick-Up of the Year
- Best Team Feud
- Grimson Award: Best Punching Power/Most Destructive Fighter
- Best Player Feud
- Biggest Let-Down
- Schultz Award: Most Old-School Moment
- Kimble Award: Most Exciting Fighter
- Neely Award: Best Skilled Fighter of the Year
Bob Probert Dies at 45
CKLW is reporting that Bob Probert has died after collapsing on a boat earlier in the day:
Probert, a former Detroit Red Wing forward, was on a boat in Lake St. Clair when an emergency call was made. EMS and fire met the boat and started CPR, but sources say Probert was not revived.
Probert, 45, played 935 games in the NHL, racking up 384 points and 3300 penalty minutes. His PIMs mark is fifth all-time.
In 1987-88 Probert made the All-Star team. He finished the season with 29 goals and 33 assists. It was the only season he led the league in penalty minutes with a whopping 398. Probert had 23 fights that season, including one of his legendary bouts with Craig Coxe. He had two more scraps in the playoffs.
Tough Guy Movement Summer 2010
This went well last season, so we’ve re-created the player movement table, tracking many of the popular players, some tough guys, and some… well, we’ll just call them popular and leave it at that.
Mike V Eyes Pro Hockey at 40
Earlier today, famed pro-skateboarder Mike Vallely (“Mike V”) held a press conference announcing he has signed up to to try out for the newly-formed Federal Hockey League’s Danbury Whalers. At the age of 40, this likely makes him the oldest rookie to seek out a job in professional hockey, a long time dream of his.
“I grew up a New York Rangers fan I would go to the games at Madison Square Garden with my father and it was just a great time to be a hockey fan great time to be a kid. I always wanted to play hockey.” Then at the age of 14 he got on his first skateboard and his life was set on a different course. But that didn’t make him forget the NHL, and a move to California years later re-awoke his passion for the game with the new arrival of Wayne Gretzky in America.
Blackhawks Win First Cup Since 1961
Congratulations to the Chicago Blackhawks, the 2009-10 Stanley Cup champions.
Second congrats to Marian Hossa. It would have been fun to have a new hockey curse, but three Cup losses in a row would have been brutal.
Some local coverage
Chicago Tribune: Kiss the Cup: Hawks are champs, 3rd time a charm indeed for Hossa, Toews draws accolades for great playoffs
Chicago Sun-Times: Blackhawks bring Stanley Cup back to Chicago, With quest over, Niemi is an unquestioned star
Philadelphia Inquirer: Flyers? run ends as Hawks win Cup
Philadelphia Daily News: The Flyers’ effort was never in question
Videos added
Jeff Hoggan vs Bill Guerin Oct 12, 2006
Darcy Hordichuk vs Reed Low Oct 12, 2006
Ryane Clowe vs Matt Greene Oct 12, 2006
Andrew Peters vs Brad Norton Oct 13, 2006
Chris Neil vs Aaron Downey Oct 14, 2006
Jody Shelley vs Derek Boogaard Oct 14, 2006
Nick Boynton vs Jordin Tootoo Oct 14, 2006
Derek Morris vs Vernon Fiddler Oct 14, 2006
Reed Low vs D.J. King Oct 14, 2006
Stephane Robidas vs Derek Armstrong Oct 14, 2006
Colton Orr vs Andrew Peters Oct 14, 2006
Todd Bertuzzi vs Ryan Craig Oct 14, 2006
Olli Jokinen vs Brad Richards Oct 14, 2006
Alexander Svitov vs Stephane Veilleux Oct 14, 2006
The 2006-07 season should be mostly filled in soon, and we’ll release a best of page shortly after.
Sparks Fly Between Habs and Flyers
The playoffs have been exciting, but relatively tame. The Flyers, winners of six in a row going into last night, four of those coming in an improbable come-from-behind victory over the Bruins, were facing their first loss in weeks and weren’t going to let the Canadiens off easy.
Jaroslav Spacek gave some stick to Danny Briere, Briere retaliated and a scrum ensued. Moments later Scott Hartnell and Roman Hamrlik have the gloves off and Hartnell is tossing some real punches.
Memorial Cup
There have been a few bouts in the Memorial Cup. I’ve included those fight links below.
Videos added
Scott Hartnell vs Roman Hamrlik May 20, 2010
Travis Hamonic vs Cody Beach May 19, 2010
Rigby Burgart vs Adam Wallace May 17, 2010
Craig Duininck vs Mark Stone May 14, 2010
Lohan, Voros’ ex?
A little Page Six fun:
Lindsay Lohan started another fight in a club—this time with New York Ranger skaters Aaron Voros and Sean Avery at 1Oak. The troubled starlet threw a drink over Voros’ model girlfriend, Jessica Stam, and then tried to get all three thrown out of the Wildfox fall-collection party the other night. A spy relates, “Lindsay threw a fit because she wanted to be at their table near the DJ. But she claimed she didn’t want to sit with Aaron and said, ‘He’s my ex-boyfriend. I don’t want him anywhere near me.’ Voros denied knowing her.
Some reads
Thornton has a fighting chance to stick with Bruins
A rough role for monster magnet
Way Up High, ‘Where the Real Fans Are’
Carcillo finds balance in being a bruiser
The tobacco problem: Swedes chew it (sort of), Russians smoke it
Bring on Round Two
The first round of the 2009-10 NHL playoffs are complete. The West was fairly predictable, but the East saw the 6, 7 and 8 seeds skate away winners. There should be no goaltender questions in Montreal after the upset Jaroslav Halak helped pull off.
There haven’t been too many fights. A couple of questionable majors calls, but the round was entertaining nonetheless.
Lappy out
Bad news for Ian Laperriere and the Flyers:
Laperriere is expected to miss the rest of the playoffs because of a brain contusion and concussion he suffered while blocking a shot.
More top rated fights
A new page: the best AHL fights of 2009-10.
Videos added
Derek Morris vs Justin Abdelkader Apr 25, 2010
Richard Clune vs Rick Rypien Apr 23, 2010
Wayne Simmonds vs Shane O’Brien Apr 23, 2010
Zdeno Chara vs Paul Gaustad Apr 23, 2010
Craig Rivet vs Milan Lucic Apr 21, 2010
Andrej Sekera vs Vladimir Sobotka Apr 19, 2010
Scott Gomez vs Tom Poti Apr 17, 2010
Zack Smith vs Maxime Talbot Apr 16, 2010
Top Rated Fights of 2009-10
The votes are in and here are your top 25 NHL fights of 2009-10... for now. Voting won’t ever stop, and anything that happens in the playoffs has the potential to be included.
Also released:
Top 25 NHL fights of 2008-09
Top 25 NHL fights of 2007-08
Coming soon: top AHL fights, and, of course, the top 25 of all-time.
A menu option for these pages will be added soon. Next season this page will be made as soon as we have 25 fights in the log and the list will sort itself out a few times a day. Enjoy.
A Strong Ending
Evander Kane KOing Matt Cooke started the highlight reel for the last weekend of the 2009-10 NHL regular season.
Later in that same game Eric Godard had a great toe-to-toe fight with Eric Boulton.
There were also a couple of high-rated bouts in the Islanders-Devils game: Michael Haley and Rod Pelley had a good, open exchange — and Trevor Gillies eventually convinced PL3 to drop the gloves, leading to another back and forth scrap.
Will any make the best of 2009-10 list or be nominated for one of our season awards? Find out soon as we start releasing the nominees this week.
The final day
Aaron Voros took on Ian Laperriere in the most important, and probably most entertaining game of the day. Philly took the 8th and final playoff spot in a shootout. Jody Shelley had the lone goal for the Rangers.
Another Penguin down: Joel Rechlicz dropped Mike Rupp with a clean shot, but Rupp popped right back up. Wrecker’s glove toss alone makes the video worth watching.
Boogaard the Bolt
According to multiple NHL sources, the Wild traded enforcer Derek Boogaard to the Tampa Bay Lightning on March 3 for third- and fourth-round draft picks and NHL penalty-minute leader Zenon Konopka. GMs Chuck Fletcher and Brian Lawton were talking trade all day, and just before the 2 p.m. trade deadline, Lawton called to sweeten the deal. It was accepted by Fletcher, but the Wild soon discovered the Lightning no longer owned one of the draft picks. By the time the mistake was resolved, it was past the deadline and the trade couldn’t transpire.
Videos added
Ryan Malone vs Keith Ballard Apr 11, 2010 x2
Eric Godard vs Joel Rechlicz Apr 11, 2010
Michael Rupp vs Joel Rechlicz Apr 11, 2010
Aaron Voros vs Ian Laperriere Apr 11, 2010
Jamal Mayers vs Rick Rypien Apr 10, 2010
Mark Fistric vs Cody Almond Apr 10, 2010
Nick Tarnasky vs Zenon Konopka Apr 10, 2010
Trevor Gillies vs Pierre-Luc Letourneau-Leblond Apr 10, 2010
Micheal Haley vs Rod Pelley Apr 10, 2010
Eric Godard vs Eric Boulton Apr 10, 2010 x2
Matt Cooke vs Evander Kane Apr 10, 2010 x2
Scott Hartnell vs Daniel Girardi Apr 9, 2010
Mike Brown vs B.J. Crombeen Apr 9, 2010
Some reads
Rick Tocchet doesn’t fear management critique
Blues players are grateful for time spent with Tkachuk
SI Players Poll: NHL’s Toughest Fighter
Fighting Majors
Most regular visitors of the site know we have a very simple way of counting a “fight”: if one player receives a fighting major during an incident, it gets logged. That’s it. Nothing subjective on our end.
That doesn’t mean the call itself isn’t subjective. I receive emails from time to time about a “missed fight”, generally some roughings, and it’s rare they should have been called majors. The incident just happens to involve the emailer’s favorite player or team.
More frequently I’ll get a note asking “how was that a fight?” with a link to a fight page. Bad fights or questionable majors calls happen too, I don’t get to call them, just log them.
It’s rare you see bad roughings and bad majors called in the same game, but we got both in tonight’s Senators vs Lighting game.
Tampa goaltender Mike Smith didn’t care for Chris Neil‘s slewfoot/trip and went right after him. If it weren’t for Mattias Ohlund, we might have seen something a bit longer, but real punches were definitely thrown. Roughings were called, presumably because a goalie was involved and the game continued.
It wouldn’t have seemed so odd until fighting majors were called when Matt Carkner went after Todd Fedoruk (video). Was that really any more of a “fight”?
The entire game was riddled with odd calls and Tampa’s television color analyst Bobby Taylor didn’t hold back any criticism, eventually referring to the officiating crew as “idiots in the zebra stripes”.
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